With Valentine’s Day fast approaching —you know that day where the average wrestling fan masturbates into his favorite sock, (Mr. Cocko?) and then cries himself to sleep—I thought I’d get the jump on the festivities early and introduce my *own* line of patented (just registered it and the phonograph this morning) Valentine’s Day cards, guaranteed to get you blank stares Continue Reading...

For Harry. May you finally encounter immortals that stand a chance of matching your incredible wit. By the end of 2015, it seemed that WWE finally figured out how to use Roman Reigns: as a cold-hearted warrior with the fury of a thousand angry Gods, violently laying waste to everyone that stood between him and the top of the mountain. Within Continue Reading...

When Brock Lesnar’s third F5 begat the pinfall that ended The Undertaker’s iconic WrestleMania streak, the impact was immediate. Hundreds of visible fans on camera, out of the 75,000 at the Superdome, leapt from their chairs, eyes saucer-sized, jaws slack, and emitting grunts and screams of incomprehension. That WWE would take modern-day folklore, carefully (in the early days unknowingly) Continue Reading...

Quick note from RD: Gooker voting will begin next Monday, January 5. To prep yourself, here’s Justin Henry’s recap of what was a pretty dang horrible year in pro wrestling. 2014 was a year of Daniel Bryan overcoming the corporate leviathan, a developmental territory becoming must-see television, the number two wrestling promotion finding a cable home that intends to Continue Reading...

From the “Less Things Change, the More They Stay the Same” file, we get comedy from WWE.com. Behold, #3 on their list of “10 Ways 2014 Changed WWE Forever” list… Apparently in WWE Speak, “Forever” = “40 Days”. Good to know. ...

Hi everyone, As some of you know, I took over the Epic Tweeting back in October of last year and since that time I have gone into The Doctor’s Tardis to discover no fewer than 110 Tweets. Some funny, some historical, some going over people’s heads and some that were a little too inside. But at the end of Continue Reading...